| 单词 | post-morning |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspost-morning e. Denoting the time at which the mail leaves or arrives, as post hour, †post-morning.See also post time n.1, post day n., post night n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > time of post post day1645 post time1650 post night1657 post hour1666 post-morning1666 1666 J. Wallis Let. 7 Aug. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 467 The post hour approaching allows me not time. ?1750 D. Garrick Let. 13 July (1963) I. 148 Every Post Morning since Yr Departure, My Lady has rose almost with ye Lark to get her Letters. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xxii. 92 On a post-morning. 1804 T. Lewin Let. 10 July in Lewin Lett. (1909) I. i. 112 The post hour is at hand, so I have only time to add kind remembrances to all at home. 1904 W. B. Yeats Let. 29 Dec. (1994) III. 691 I could not write earlier to day because an interviewer came & was with me till after the post hour. 2004 Star Press (Nexis) 21 Oct. 2 a Post hours are noon to midnight, but supplies can be left by the front door any time. < as lemmas |
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